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Former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday he has “full confidence in our judicial system” as he faces an ongoing federal lawsuit over a 2025 Instagram post.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Comey said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the judiciary is “a product of the genius of our nation’s founders.””Frankly, this is the only leg of a three-legged stool still standing within the U.S. government, but it stands tall and straight,” he added. “It’s the guardian of the rule of law, and I believe in that.”The former FBI…

IE11 is not supported. For the best experience, please visit our site in a different browser.Currently playingNBC News reports that the Louisiana Republican Senate race will go to a runoff, with Cassidy losing the election.01:46to the nextSteve Kornacki talks about the Indiana and Ohio primaries.06:08Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Democratic Senate primary, NBC News Project04:37Ramaswamy wins Ohio Republican primary for governor, NBC News Project00:56Democrat Analilia Mejia is predicted to win New Jersey House of Representatives race02:37Paxton says key results show ‘Texans want new leadership’03:07Texas Supreme Court blocks extension of voting hours in Dallas County03:06Cornyn slams Paxton as ‘self-centered’ after Texas Republican…

Federal investigators are looking into whether high winds or other factors may have played a role in a small plane crash in Akron, Ohio, in which a passenger plane crashed into a house and exploded during a training flight, killing two people, officials said Friday.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Akron police received a call about the accident Thursday around 4 p.m. Both victims were aboard a Piper PA-28 aircraft when it crashed into the home.At a press conference Friday, NTSB air accident investigator Aaron McCarter confirmed that the flight was…

President Donald Trump is defending his comments earlier this week that he did not consider the financial situation of Americans amid efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran war.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.”Perfect statement. I’d say it again,” Trump said in an interview Friday after being shown a clip of his earlier remarks.President Trump told reporters Tuesday that he is not thinking “at all” about Americans’ finances as he negotiates with Iran to end the months-long conflict, adding that his sole focus is to prevent Iran from acquiring…

Construction of the Mariner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Building on Monday, December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC, USA. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFor the first time in this economic cycle, the market believes the Fed’s next action will be to raise interest rates.After unexpectedly high inflation over the past week, traders in the federal funds futures market are pricing in inflation as early as December, giving them much more certainty into early 2027, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.The index, which uses the price of 30-day federal funds futures contracts to measure probability, puts the probability of a…

Beef fillets are displayed at Handy Market on May 14, 2026 in Burbank, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesThe recent spike in inflation is likely to worsen in the coming months, according to a Friday survey of the nation’s top economists.Consumer price inflation is expected to reach 6% in the first quarter, according to the Professional Forecaster Survey, a Blue Ribbon organization conducted quarterly by the Philadelphia Fed.In its latest forecast, three months ago, the committee pegged the expected increase in the consumer price index at just 2.7%. But that was just before the US and Israel launched an attack…

Elon Musk, whose Tesla company also makes humanoid robots, called Chinese robots “cool.” Musk was in Beijing this week as part of President Donald Trump’s state visit. President Trump said his meeting with President Xi Jinping went well and expressed hope for further U.S. cooperation with China.However, there is still a lot of room for improvement in what these robots can do physically and autonomously, that is, without remote instructions.”What the robot industry needs to improve is in the brains of these robots, in the software that allows these robots to actually do what we want them to do,” said…

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on April 29, 2026, in New York City, USA, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference after the Fed’s interest rate announcement is broadcast on a screen. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersEd Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, said bond market investors believe the Federal Reserve needs to keep up with inflation as new leadership takes over.Yardeni said Wall Street expects the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee to abandon its bias toward easing interest rates at next month’s policy meeting. Bond traders are hoping this will lead…

While the recent news on inflation has been generally bad, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expects price pressures to ease soon, just in time for the new chairman of the Federal Reserve to take office.Bessent told CNBC on Thursday that the recent spike in energy supply inflation is likely to reverse as the U.S. “continues to deliver” crude oil to cushion the supply shock from the Iran war.”I’m confident there’s nothing more temporary than a supply shock, and we can, we can, look at that, because core inflation was coming down even before the Iran conflict started,” Bessent told CNBC’s Joe…

WASHINGTON — He is the biggest draw in American politics, a sitting president who has created a movement loyal to him for more than a decade.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.He may be the most polarizing figure in American politics, now presiding over rising inflation and a war in the Middle East with no clear end in sight.Donald Trump’s ability to both attract and repel American voters creates a dilemma that Republicans are grappling with heading into November’s midterm elections. The question is: Should he campaign aggressively to maintain his…